korsu
Finnish
Inside a korsu at Finnish-Soviet frontier in 1941.
Noun
korsu
- dugout (pit dug into the ground as a shelter from enemy fire)
Usage notes
- korsu is a dugout big enough to live in and is equipped with a roof. An open shelter for fire may be called potero (“foxhole”) or juoksuhauta (“trench”)
Declension
| Inflection of korsu (Kotus type 1/valo, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | korsu | korsut | |
| genitive | korsun | korsujen | |
| partitive | korsua | korsuja | |
| illative | korsuun | korsuihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | korsu | korsut | |
| accusative | nom. | korsu | korsut |
| gen. | korsun | ||
| genitive | korsun | korsujen | |
| partitive | korsua | korsuja | |
| inessive | korsussa | korsuissa | |
| elative | korsusta | korsuista | |
| illative | korsuun | korsuihin | |
| adessive | korsulla | korsuilla | |
| ablative | korsulta | korsuilta | |
| allative | korsulle | korsuille | |
| essive | korsuna | korsuina | |
| translative | korsuksi | korsuiksi | |
| instructive | — | korsuin | |
| abessive | korsutta | korsuitta | |
| comitative | — | korsuineen | |
Anagrams
- Rusko, rusko
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch koorts.
Noun
korsu
- fever